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Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
Transatlantic partnership to tackle neurodegenerative disease
Research into multiple sclerosis and motor neuron disease is to be boosted with an international collaboration to further understanding of these illnesses. Experts from the University of Edinburgh and the Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Biogen Idec will work together to seek greater insight into the cell processes behind these debilitating conditions.

Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
The by-product resulting from organic waste management is effective as a fertilizer
The by-product resulting from the management of organic waste could offer optimum uses in fertilizing land intended for maize feed and soft winter wheat, according to a study carried out by the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker-Tecnalia.

Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
EU and the US extend scientific co-operation on standards and measurements
Lowered tariffs and harmonized standards -- this is where the real savings for businesses and consumers will be achieved in the future free trade agreement between the EU and the US. To help reach the goal of having compatible standards across the both sides of the Atlantic, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology today agreed to expand their current scientific co-operation to 10 different areas.

Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
Hospital quality information on common heart procedure now publicly available
Information from the American College of Cardiology national database of hospital records on stenting and angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI, is now available to consumers.

Public Release: 17-Jul-2013
Pioneering student research program leads to international conference
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will host scientists from around the world next week for the first-ever workshop devoted to Distributed Drug Discovery, an innovative, student-driven research program quickly becoming a high-impact, low-cost teaching model.

Public Release: 17-Jul-2013

Nature
Elastic electronics: Stretchable gold conductor grows its own wires
Networks of spherical nanoparticles embedded in elastic materials may make the best stretchy conductors yet, engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have discovered.

STX Foundation, US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Public Release: 17-Jul-2013

Cancer Research
Cancer drug tested in pet dogs is now bound for human trials
Thanks to a new $2 million investment, a drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct while sparing healthy cells is on the road to human clinical trials. The compound, known as PAC-1, has so far proven safe and has promising anti-cancer effects in cell culture, in mouse models of cancer and in pet dogs with spontaneously occurring lymphomas and osteosarcomas.

Public Release: 17-Jul-2013
New website will help farmers ensure hens maintain good feather cover
Hen pecking is a serious animal welfare concern and can cause great economic losses for the farmer and the egg-production industry as a whole. A new website has been launched to help make sure laying hens are well-feathered throughout their lives.

Public Release: 17-Jul-2013
Royal Society -- EPSRC announce fellowships partnership
A new collaboration between the Royal Society and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council was announced today that will support early career Royal Society research fellows who are working within EPSRC's priority areas. Researchers recently awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowships and Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships by the Royal Society will receive further research funding from the EPSRC. The first seven fellowship awards range between £190k- £320k and are spread across six of the UK's leading universities.

Public Release: 16-Jul-2013
Research leads to affordable technology to fight mosquito-borne diseases
Technology that hampers mosquitoes' host-seeking behavior, identified at the University of California, Riverside in 2011, has led to the development of the world's first product that blocks mosquitoes' ability to efficiently detect carbon dioxide, their primary method of tracking human blood meals.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 16-Jul-2013
Collection that may hold key to ocean's mysteries looks to expand in new waterfront home
Ocean Genome Legacy, New England Biolabs Inc., and Northeastern University have reached an agreement that will bring a collection of tissue from the world's most rare, strange, and remarkable ocean creatures to the Marine Science Center in Nahant, Mass.

Public Release: 15-Jul-2013
GOES-R improvements to provide stunning, continuous full-disk imagery
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's next generation of GOES satellites, beginning with GOES-R, will have the ability to take full-disk images of Earth at five-minute intervals.

NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Public Release: 15-Jul-2013
Clinical trials for cancer, 1 patient at a time
New department at Columbia University Medical Center is developing a different approach to cancer clinical trials, in which therapies are designed and tested one patient at a time. The patient's tumor is "reverse engineered" to determine its unique genetic characteristics and to identify existing US Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs that may target them.

Public Release: 12-Jul-2013

SIGGRAPH 2013

ACM Transactions on Graphics
UCSC researchers develop 3-D display with no ghosting for viewers without glasses
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a prototype for 3D+2D television that allows viewers with stereo glasses to see three-dimensional images, while viewers without the glasses see a normal two-dimensional image.

National Science Foundation, Los Alamos National Laboratory ISSDM

Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
N.C.'s investment management industry large, growing
The investment management industry in North Carolina is large and growing, concluded a new report from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
Gammapod developed at University of Maryland School of Medicine targets early-stage breast cancer
An experimental innovation in cancer treatment from the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine could provide a new, high-precision, noninvasive method of treating early-stage breast cancer. The manufacturer is actively seeking FDA approval to begin clinical trials.

National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
AMP concerned about the structure and application of gap fill payment amounts
The Association for Molecular Pathology submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expressing serious concerns about the gap fill process.

Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
UC San Diego's HPWREN aids firefighters in Chariot fire
The high-speed data transmission network of the UC San Diego-based High-Performance Wireless and Research Education Network is once again showing its utility as a public safety asset as firefighters battle the 7,000-acre Chariot Fire near Mount Laguna, east of San Diego.

Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
Alternative biofuel crops to fuel the future of the poor
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have launched the IFAD-ICRAF Programme for the Development of Alternative Biofuel Crops, an initiative focused on providing clean energy for rural communities, enhancing local food security and increasing subsistence farmers' resilience to climate change. The program will develop and scale up pro-poor, sustainable biofuel production models in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

International Fund for Agricultural Development, Government of India

Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
KAIST's HUBO ready for DARPA's Robotics Challenge trials
In tandem with Rainbow Co., Professor Jun-Ho Oh at KAIST and his research team developed DRC-HUBO, which will compete as Team DRC-HUBO led by Drexel University at the DARPA's Robotics Challenge Trials to be held in December 2013. DRC-HUBO is designed to perform difficult but essential activities required when responding to disaster scenes.

Public Release: 10-Jul-2013
Springer announces impact factor increases for journals in 2012
Thomson Reuters recently released its Journal Citation Reports® for 2012 and, among those journals receiving a first-time impact factor, 46 were Springer publications. This brings the total number of Springer journals with IFs to 1,539, many of which are published on behalf of Springer's society partners. In addition, the growth in citations among Springer journals was also impressive, with 86 percent of the portfolio's journal titles having increased their citations.

Public Release: 10-Jul-2013
Optimizing microbe factories
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology will join forces for a common project, the optimization of the MEP pathway. Microbes and plant chloroplasts use this metabolic route to produce a diversity of active compounds including pharmaceuticals, crop protection compounds and industrial materials. The goal is to utilize bacteria with an optimized MEP pathway to improve the biosynthetic yield of various natural products.

Max Planck Society; Fraunhofer Society

Public Release: 10-Jul-2013
Cleveland Clinic Laboratories to provide testing and diagnostic services to ACL Laboratories
Cleveland Clinic Laboratories will now be the main provider of specialized testing and diagnostics services for ACL Laboratories, one of the largest hospital system laboratories in the United States.

Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
Ben-Gurion U. and Sorrento Therapeutics sign agreement to develop anti-hepatitis C virus antibodies
This collaborative effort utilizes the respective strengths of each organization to create an important product opportunity consisting of therapeutic and/or prophylactic agents against HCV infections. Sorrento, a San Diego-based company, will be responsible for developing the anti-HCV antibody products.

Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
Alaska Satellite Facility debuts new image collection
A treasure trove of new images is now available through the Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center.


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